Chapter 131 CHAPTER 131: FATE REALLY IS A BITCH



"Ah, where was I," Davies commented taking his focus on Security Guard 1 and the other security team members that were dressed the same as Security Guard 1. He returned his focus to Lee Jung who just stood watching the situation.

"Ah, right, where were we?" he commented, his icy look disappearing immediately and a slight smile taking its place.

"Oh… right, you better hurry, you should be able to buy a few stones before your account gets frozen," he said, but he knew, or at least he expected that he had bought enough time for the account to have been frozen, he expected at least this much from somebody working for him directly or indirectly… and if they weren't capable of this much? Well, no one would notice if a few employees of one of the biggest banks in Yorkshire disappeared overnight, after all, accidents happened all the time.

It was at this point that Lee Jung realized that he had spent way too much time arguing with Davies and doing other time-wasting things like gaping like a fool when he should have been rushing to buy the stones and have purchased them before his account was frozen. 

Immediately he realized his folly, he rushed towards the last stone stall that still had stones in a bid to quickly pick out some stones and buy them before his accounts were frozen, hopefully, he still had enough time, he thought, not giving up hope on defeating Davies even though it was almost sure that he was in a losing game.

Davies watched as Lee Jung hurried off to the stall to try and pick out some stones that he could still use to compete. To be honest, he wasn't sure whether the process of freezing Lee Jung's account would be completed before he could pick out some stones and buy them, especially if some circumstances could happen that would not let it happen early enough to stop Lee Jung from buying a single stone.

It was already obvious that fate was directly tampering with various things and people to give Lee Jung an edge over Davies… in fact, the coincidences were so glaringly obvious and out of place that Davies would have to be blind to not have noticed, but despite that, he still chose to remind Lee Jung before he received a confirmatory message from the bank that Lee Jung's account had been frozen.

The issue here was why had he even done such a thing?

Well, it was pretty simple, since he had been able to confirm that fate was directly tampering with things to keep Lee Jung on track and was favoring him in everything he did, he wanted to know how far fate could go to keep Lee Jung in favorable conditions.

After all, there had to be a limit to its interference… and if there wasn't one, he needed to know that as well, hence why he had prompted Lee Jung to see if he could somehow still win against a situation where he was set up to fail.

But even though he was going to be doing such a test, he was also not planning to let Lee Jung have his way, should things go sideways, and in preparation for that, he moved closer to Daniella and whispered a few orders to her ear, not noticing her ears turn slightly red as he spoke into her ear.

After giving her his orders, he whipped out his phone and started tapping things into it.

Meanwhile, at the stone stall, Lee Jung activated the blessing "Sage's eyes," his eyes beginning to slightly glow, but doing such a thing as he immediately closed his eyes in pain and had to do his best not to scream out in pain at almost being blinded at the light.

As previously mentioned, Lee Jung couldn't do much with the blessing of the "Sage's eyes" other than to see things that were normally not visible to the human eyes, and mana was one of those things.

When he had activated the blessing inside of the stall where stones were arranged all around, every single stone produced a blinding light which signified that all of those stones had power stones inside of them, and from the intensity and variety of the lights that he was seeing due to the sheer amount of mana that they held and the types of mana they contained, it was obvious that they were all at least high-value rare power stones.

Even though his eyes were almost popping out due to the stinging pain from being bombarded with such a high-intensity light show, he couldn't dampen down his excitement, as with this, he was definitely going to win the stone gambling competition against Davies, gain the right to buy the "moonstone" and also make a huge profit from the stones.

He quickly forced his eyes open and tried to look normal as he asked the stone merchant how many stones were in the stall. Whether it was coincidental or it was fate, somehow, there were only a hundred and five stones in the stall.

Lee Jung quickly brought out his card, intending to buy all the stones in the stall as he would be a fool to leave any of those rare-grade power stones behind for anyone else to buy. Such was the mentality of a fated protagonist, they weren't one to share opportunities unless it was with another opportunity in the form of a smoking hot gyal with a bombastic body that the netizens knew as the heroine.

With this in mind, he called out, a bit loudly, "I'll take it all,"

It almost seemed like he was trying to brag, but the onlookers who had already seen Davies earlier buy more than a thousand stones at double the price weren't even shaken by his actions and some even mocked him under their breaths, calling him a hopeless loser and braggart, especially now that they knew the identity of the person he was competing with.

All of this did not escape Davies's attention; from the moment Lee Jung had entered the store, to the moment that he had closed his eyes in pain, Davies was watching. 

Even now that Lee Jung was trying to buy all the stones in the stall, Davies was still watching and had been able to confirm that Lee Jung did have a way to select the special stones and he knew that it was more than likely that all the stones in the stall had valuable rare-stones in them because if anything could be confirmed about a protagonist, it was that they never spent their money on something that wasn't worth at least double the price they used to buy it.

Luckily he had already made plans for something of this sort, as he knew that now that Lee Jung had decided to buy the stones, he could almost guess that there was no way that the account had been frozen, and it was even less of a coincidence that the stones were exactly a hundred and five, which was exactly the same amount of money that Lee Jung had in the account that was about to be frozen.

It was almost like the universe was telling him to buy the stones with all the money in the account before it was frozen, putting all of Davies's efforts to waste and not making a loss because he would have used all the money to buy power stones that Davies couldn't seize from him even if Lee Jung was actually being investigated… which he was, but it was not because he was suspected for selling information about Imperium technologies.

As an experienced reincarnator, Davies could see all the signs and if he hadn't been overly pessimistic and had made plans for even this situation, he would be grinding his teeth in annoyance at fate's methods and blatant cheating in this situation.

As if it wasn't enough that Lee Jung was a protagonist who would be favored wherever he was, and in whatever he did, fate was also taking her sweet time to personally involve herself in his every disadvantageous situation and helped him cheat his way out of it.

As someone on the other side of that scale, how was he supposed to accept such a blatant favorability towards some bastard that was not even deserving of such a treatment?

Even as he slightly gritted his teeth in slight anger, his fingers did not stop moving on his phone as he finished his preparations for his next move while he walked towards the direction of the stone stall where Lee Jung was as he did so.

The stone merchant rummaged through his bag and brought out a card reader with which Lee Jung would use to make the purchase and began to slightly rub off the dust on the glass screen, much to the annoyance of Lee Jung who was working with a clock and had to quickly finish the purchase before his account got frozen.

"Hey, can you hurry up, I don't have the time for all of that," he quickly called out, his tone expectant and a bit rushed.

"Oh…" the merchant handed the stone over to Lee Jung after being spoken to. Lee Jung quickly grabbed it and plunged his card right into it from the back, with a smooth, hard, and fast stroke of his hand.

"Showtime," Davies who was approaching the stone stall, muttered.